Here's the most recent list of the latest and greatest downloads which have gone live from Rational Support since September 17th! These links below are provided to help you find the fixes you need in order to stay up to date and successful with your Rational products.... Plus, don't forget to check out the downloads tag to see any of the fixes you may have previously missed:

Here's the most recent list of the latest and greatest downloads which have gone live from Rational Support since August 15th! We present these links below to help you find the fixes you need in order to stay up to date and successful with your Rational products.... Plus, don't forget to check out the downloads tag to see any of the fixes you may have previously missed:

These are the top content reused during June to help solve your Rational Change, Rational Focal Point, and Rational Quality Manager issues. Last month the following technotes were the most heavily reused when closing PMRs opened by you, our clients. We hope that highlighting them here will help others encountering the same or similar issues also find quick resolution:

Last month the following technotes were the most heavily reused when closing your PMRs. These are the top content reused during May to help solve your Rational Focal Point, Rational Change, or Rational Quality Manager issues. We hope that highlighting them here will help others encountering the same or similar issues also find quick resolution:

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Have you found a technote that helped you solve an issue without having to open a PMR? Let us know by rating and leaving feedback on that content using the "Rate this page" stars on the top right of the content or the box of the same name at the bottom of each technote! Your feedback is highly valuable to us as we work to improve the quality of solutions and help you solve issues more effectively and efficiently.

Last month the following technotes were the most heavily reused when closing PMRs opened by you, our clients. These are the top content reused during April to help solve your Rational Focal Point, Rational Change, Rational Team Concert, or Rational Quality Manager issues. We hope that highlighting them here will help others encountering the same or similar issues also find quick resolution:

Featured author- We are pleased to feature Contributing Author Ritesh NigamRitesh Nigam is a senior software engineer with eight years of experience in software development. He has been working as a senior developer for IBM Rational Change for more than five years. He also has experience in Java, Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE), Perl, and web technologies, such as Dojo toolkit, Ajax, web services, OSLC, and change and configuration management.

Last month the following technotes were the most heavily reused when closing PMRs opened by you, our clients. Hot off the presses is the top content reused during November to help solve your Rational Focal Point, Rational Change, or Rational Quality Manager issues. We hope that highlighting them here will help others encountering the same or similar issues also find quick resolution:

Have you found a technote that helped you solve an issue without having to open a PMR? Let us know by rating and leaving feedback on that content using the "Rate this page" stars on the top right of the content or the box of the same name at the bottom of each technote! Your feedback is highly valuable to us as we work to improve the quality of solutions and help you sole issues more effectively and efficiently.

As we're up against the Thanksgiving holiday in the U.S. and presumably a slower week all around, let's take a look back at the following items that went live on developerWorks Rational over the past two weeks. After all, now is as good a time as any to catch up on that reading you've been putting off:

Adopt continuous integration in IBM z/OS application development, Part 1By Zhang Hong Chen, Enterprise Modernization Solution Architect, IBM and Rosalind Radcliffe, Enterprise Modernization Solution Architect, IBMContinuous integration of code improves software, because you can catch errors before they cause problems. This two-part article explains how continuous integration concepts in distributed development apply to the IBM System z domain. Part 1 describes using Rational Team Concert to automate the build and deployment of a mainframe application. Product: Rational Team Concert

What's new in IBM Rational Application Developer 8.5 portal toolsBy Jaspreet Singh, Software Architect, IBM and Mansi Gaba, Staff Software Engineer, IBMGet details on the new or enhanced portal and portlet development tools introduced in Version 8.5, including additions for mobile devices. The authors explain ways to use some of these tools and include code snippets and illustrated examples. Familiarity with Rational Application Developer is helpful in following the article. Product: IBM Rational Application Developer

Handling TOC overflow on IBM AIX systemsBy Lu Yang, C/C++ Test Teamlead for AIX and Linux on Power, IBM and Christopher Barton, PhD, Technical lead, XL C/C++ & XL Fortran for AIX and Linux on Power, IBMWhen too many addresses of global symbols in C, C++, and Fortran programs are stored in the table of contents, TOC overflow occurs. Learn the different mechanisms for handling it, the performance impact of each, and the best ways to use the mechanisms, based on the application characteristics.Product: Compilers

Add Project Security in IBM Rational Change By Ritesh Nigam, Staff Software Engineer, I.B.M.Project Security is a new feature added to Rational Change in Version 5.3. It makes user management easy. Part 1 explained the feature and related terminology. This second and last part explains how to set up project security and then create and maintain project rules for your organization.Product: IBM Rational Change

We are pleased to feature Contributing Author Ricardo Balduino

Ricardo Balduino is a senior software engineer at IBM. He leads and contributes to the development of solutions such as the Eclipse Process Framework, IBM practices, the Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management, Jazz-based software, and the Rational Unified Process. His 17 years of experience in the software industry also includes developing software for financial services and automation of industrial processes, as well as training and consulting services to help organizations adopt formal and agile software development practices. Ricardo is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP). He holds a B.S. degree in Computer Sciences from Sao Paulo State University, Brazil, and an M.S. degree in Software Engineering from San Jose State University, USA.

Last week we also highlighted the following items on our home page and product pages that you may find of interest.

Featured download: Rational Developer for System z: IBM® Rational® Developer for System z gives System z developers tools for traditional mainframe development and for integrated, mixed workloads. With the interactive, workstation-based environment, you can connect to a mainframe and develop mainframe-based applications in COBOL, PL/I, Assembler, C/C++, and Java code, as well as workstation-based applications in COBOL, PL/I, and Java code. Play with it in the sandbox, or download it for a trial.

Comparing DAD to Rational Unified Process. Part 1: http://wp.me/p1ODzT-bb"Is disciplined agile delivery just an agile version of Rational Unified Process?" IBM Champion Mark Lines answers the question is his blog.

Comparing DAD to Rational Unified Process. Part 2: http://wp.me/p1ODzT-dOPart 2 of this blog post describes what parts of the unified process made it into the disciplined agile delivery process decision framework.

Have you found a technote that helped you solve an issue without having to open a PMR? Let us know by rating and leaving feedback on that content using the "Rate this page" stars on the top right of the content or the box of the same name at the bottom of each technote! Your feedback is highly valuable to us as we work to improve the quality of solutions and help you sole issues more effectively and efficiently.

Last month the following technotes were the most heavily reused when closing PMRs opened by you, our clients. Hot off the presses is the top content reused during October to help solve your Rational Focal Point, Rational Change, or Rational Quality Manager issues. We hope that highlighting them here will help others encountering the same or similar issues also find quick resolution:

Run automated Selenium JUnit regression tests By Matthew J. BradshawLinking an automation tool to create regression test suites with a Collaborative Lifecycle Management application helps ensure end-to-end traceability of requirements. This guide shows how to connect IBM Rational Quality Manager to Selenium, an open source tool for testing web applications. You can then run tests automatically after a build. Product: Rational Quality Manager

Add Project Security in Rational Change: IntroductionBy Ritesh NigamWhen you enable the Project Security feature introduced in Rational Change 5.3, users are assigned dynamic privileges within a set of CRs, rather than the alternative of static privileges that apply to all change requests (CRs) and tasks within a database. This makes user management for Rational Change 5.3 easy. Product: Rational Change

We are pleased to feature Contributing Author Darrell Schrag

Darrell Schrag lives in the Chicago area and has lived and breathed software development for the past 24 years. He spent the first eight years of his career developing software in the DoD (U.S. Department of Defense) and financial sectors until he moved to the other side to sell and consult for Rational software. He has spent his time since helping organizations improve all disciplines of their software development lifecycles. He still keeps his coding skills up to date by building extensions to IBM Eclipse-based products. Recently, Darrell has been involved in mobile development, helping IBM customers integrate the mobile platform into their development landscapes. https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/swdevfromthecubicle/?lang=en

Last week we also highlighted the following items on our home page and product pages that you may find of interest.

Featured download

IBM Rational solution for Collaborative Lifecycle Management combines Rational Team Concert, Rational Quality Manager, Rational Requirements Composer into one image, available on the IBM SmartCloud Enterprise, or as a download. This integrated solution image can help your software development team improve their productivity with integrated application lifecycle management (ALM) capabilities. Read more about Collaborative Lifecycle Management http://www.ibm.com/software/rational/announce/lifecycle/. The products in this image offer improved time to delivery with real-time planning, improved quality with lifecycle traceability, and improved predictability with development intelligence. Try CLM on the cloud http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/clm/cloud.htmlOr as a download http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/clm/index.html

The numbers are in for the top content covering Rational Change, Focal Point, and Quality Manager! This list is based on data showing the top content reused by our Support Engineers to help solve PMRs over the month of July. As an admin or user of Change, Focal Point, or Quality Manager, we're sure you'll find some great information to either help solve issues you're currently struggling with, or even avoid them altogether!

How about some nice summer reading while those earlier product bits you grabbed finish downloading and installing... The following articles went live on developerWorks Rational this week:

Adopt and automate proven processes with Rational and Jazz tools, Part 2 By Ricardo Balduino, Senior Software Engineer, IBM, USARicardo Balduino describes how to take a process already defined in Rational Method Composer and automate it in Rational Team Concert. This makes it far easier and faster to adopt proven patterns of success and also makes it possible to ensure that people follow them.Products: Rational Method Composer, Rational Team Concert

Quick steps to install Rational Change 5.2 on a Tomcat serverBy Pradeep K. Shashidhar, Advisory Software Engineer, IBM, IndiaIBM Rational Change 5.2 includes the Jetty 5.1.14 web server, and you can also deploy it with IBM WebSphere Application Server or WebSphere Application Server Community Edition. However, there is no option in the installer to deploy Rational Change on a Tomcat server. This article explains how to do that.Product: Rational Change

This week we are also highlighting the following items on the developerWorks Rationalhome page and product pages that you may find of interest.

The numbers are in once again! Here is the top content for Rational Change, Focal Point, and Quality Manager based on reuse by our Support Engineers to help solve PMRs over the month of June. As an admin or user of Change, Focal Point, or Quality Manager, I'm sure you'll find some great information in there to help solve some issues you've run into or determine upgrade paths as well!

May's numbers have been in for a bit, but were slightly preempted by Innovate content. For that I apologize, and deliver, humbly, the top content for Rational Change, Focal Point, and Quality Manager based on reuse by our Support Engineers to help solve PMRs. Check em out, I'm sure you'll find some great tidbits in there to help solve some issues you've run into as well!